June, 2016

• 6 June

  Going global: Netflix looks to India for its next original series

  

  After bringing its streaming service to nearly every corner of the world earlier this year, Netflix is working at expanding its catalogue to better serve its international customers. As part of the push, the American company on Monday announced its first original series from India, one of the 190 nations where its service was launched …

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• 6 June

  BlackBerry Priv is faring worse than expected

  

  BlackBerry’s supporters are starting to waver. An executive at AT&T, one of BlackBerry’s longest allies, didn’t pull any punches in an assessment of the latest flagship phone. “The BlackBerry Priv is really struggling,” the high-level executive, who asked not to be named, said last week. “We’ve seen more returns than we would like.” Wireless carriers are seldom publicly critical of …

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• 6 June

  Find out if your TeamViewer account has been hacked and what to do

  

  Users of TeamViewer have been blowing up Reddit, Twitter and other social media sites with claims that their accounts have been hacked. These claims range from hackers taking control of their PCs, to making purchases using user information to malicious malware installation. In an interview over the weekend, TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt admitted that there had been a significant amount …

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• 6 June

  Download all the Android apps you want on these two new Acer Chromebooks

  

  Google has updated its online store, adding the Acer Chromebook 11 and Acer Chromebook 14 to its current offering. Announced at this year’s CES back in January, the laptops are the first of a new breed of Chromebooks that will be able to run Android apps when the stable release updates this September. The $180 (£125, AU $244) Acer Chromebook …

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• 6 June

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  Now playing: Watch this: T-Mobile will bribe you with pizza 1:18 T-Mobile plans to give company shares to its customers. T-Mobile T-Mobile wants its customers invested in the company’s future. Literally. The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier said Monday that it will give one share of T-Mobile stock to millions of its customers, while providing people a chance to earn more …

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• 6 June

  Celebrity Twitter accounts hit by hackers

  

  Attention, Jack Black fans: The actor is “alive and well” despite a tweet claiming he had passed to the great beyond. Black was one of several celebrities caught in a hoax in which Twitter accounts of famous peeps were compromised. Other celebrities whose accounts were taken over included musician Keith Richards and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hacks against website and …

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• 6 June

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  T-Mobile offered up a thank you note in the form of another Un-carrier event. The company, the third-largest wireless carrier in the US, introduced a customer-appreciation program that offer you freebies such as pizza and free movie rentals through a T-Mobile Tuesday app. As the name suggests, you get rewards every Tuesday. The company teases “epic prizes” from new brands …

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• 5 June

  Verizon’s ‘Can you hear me now?’ guy is back…with Sprint

  

  Many of you will remember Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” campaign. You know, the one that featured a horn-rimmed glasses-sporting “Test Man” asking the now-oft-repeated question. Well, the “Test Man” is back, and seeing yellow. Actor Paul Marcarelli, who spent a decade touting Verizon’s network quality, is rival Sprint’s newest pitchman. “I’ve watched with fascination as each of the …

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• 5 June

  AT&T doubles down on 5G with second test location

  

  Citizens of Middletown, New Jersey, get ready for a new kind of home Internet service. AT&T said on Monday that Middletown will join Austin, Texas, as the two locations for using 5G wireless technology as a home broadband service, scheduled for the end of summer. The nation’s second largest wireless carrier said early tests with equipment partner Ericsson have yielded …

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• 5 June

  Bose intros 4 new wireless headphones you’re going to want (hands

  

  Bose is going all in on wireless headphones, and you’re probably going to want all four of its new models, though you may not be able to afford them all. The QuietComfort 35, the company’s much-anticipated around-ear Bluetooth noise-canceling headphone and the SoundSport Wireless, an-ear Bluetooth sports headphone, are available now. However, the SoundSport Pulse Wireless, which features an integrated …

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